Wow, that sounds like a great session, ECHOES! So much ground covered, so many things cleared up.

I wonder if the two of you came to any conclusion about her behavior of talking a lot? It seems like she did that last time for a reason--to try to salvage a session in which you had already withdrawn and weren't participating much. But despite this, you preferred she didn't talk a lot, you wanted more silence. Do you think she would do it differently next time?

I really love how you and she compared notes on so many points from the session. Putting your notes together, you now have a complete picture and hopefully you each have better understanding of what happened. I like the discussion of trying to fight it when the mood starts going south. How does one fight it? For the last few months I have had some low moods, and I don't think "fighting it" describes my behavior. It felt more like "watching with dismay" as it happened. I'm not sure what to do in those situations. I know we had sunshine this last weekend and that sure helped a lot. Maybe I should "fight it" by going sun searching when my mood drops. ECHOES, how do you fight it? Does your T have ideas for how to fight it? (One bright idea I had to fight it was to call T to get an appointment sooner than one month, but that didn't work either.)

Good question! They seem smart, but then can't do simple stuff like that. As you know, my T has well-developed phone ineptitude. One of my theories is that they deliberately feign incompetence so that we will abandon trying to contact them.

I laughed so much when I read that.